Marie's Meatballs 

Debra tries to learn how to make Marie's famous meatballs.

Director:

Brian K. Roberts

Writers:

Phil Rosenthal (created by) (as Philip Rosenthal), Susan Van Allen

Stars:

Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Ray Romano	...	Ray Barone
Patricia Heaton	...	Debra Barone
Brad Garrett	...	Robert Barone
Madylin Sweeten	...	Ally Barone (credit only)
Doris Roberts	...	Marie Barone
Peter Boyle	...	Frank Barone
Sawyer Sweeten	...	Geoffrey Barone (credit only)
Sullivan Sweeten	...	Michael Barone (credit only)

Storyline

For dinner, Debra cooks Ray her lemon chicken. But then Marie comes over with her famous spaghetti and meatballs. Ray chooses his mother's spaghetti and meatballs. Debra becomes frustrated because Ray picked the meatballs over her lemon chicken. Ray then gets the idea to have Marie teach Debra how she makes it. Hesitant about it, Debra let's Marie teach her. But when Ray tastes the finished product, the meatballs just taste weird. After some help from Robert, Debra finds out that Marie sabotaged her meatballs by placing a label for basil on a bottle of tarragon.

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Plot Keywords:

recipe | marriage | mother son relationship | brother brother relationship | cooking | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

The treat Robert is eating while talking to Debra is a Nestle Push-Up Pop.

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Goofs

Debra looks straight down at the box after she's done looking through it, but in the next shot her head is slightly turned to the right.

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Quotes

Marie Barone: Oh, Frank. What are you doing, putting back an empty thing?
Frank Barone: That's not empty. There's some left there.
Marie Barone: Two drops? Who's going to drink two drops of juice?
Frank Barone: I am!
Marie Barone: Alright. Let me pour you a nice glass of juice.
[Marie pours out the rest of the juice in less than a second]
Marie Barone: Say when.
Frank Barone: Right there's perfect!
[Frank sips a tiny bit from the glass]
Frank Barone: Ah! That was good. I think I'll save the rest for later.

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Crazy Credits

The Where's Lunch production logo shows Frank's glass of juice.

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Connections

Featured in Everybody Loves Raymond: The First Six Years (2002)

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Soundtracks

Everybody Loves Raymond Theme
Composed by Rick Marotta and Terry Trotter
Used as the theme song for season 1 and 2.

User Reviews

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 January 1998 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 5, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Where's Lunch, Worldwide Pants, HBO Independent Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1